In the minds of anti-p.c. warriors like Trump, this move is deliciously awkward for “sensitive” people because it forces those of us who care about not profiling or persecuting all members of a major world religion to ask ourselves an uncomfortable question: Exactly how scared of Muslims am I? When 14 people were murdered by Islamic terrorists the Council on American Islamic Relations expressed “solidarity” with the grieving and used other irrelevant jargon, when what Americans wanted was to hear how they planned to clean their own house. In accordance to Real Clear Politics’ aggregated polling knowledge, Trump leads the huge field of GOP presidential contenders as he’s polling at 29.eight %.
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Netanyahu “did [condemn the call], and that was sort of interesting”, Trump said.
Speaking individually on CBS News’ “Face the Nation”, Kerry stated Trump’s ban was “a really harmful overseas coverage”.
Netanyahu’s office had released a statement in reaction both to Trump’s comments, as well as his announcement that he meant to meet the prime minister by the end of the year.
“I think he’s pretty much right on track actually on that”.
On Twitter, Trump said the meeting with Netanyahu would take place “after I become president of the USA”. Given the struggles to ratify the Constitution and to delicately unify a society that valued pluralism-the protection of states’ rights, religious differences, and an oppositional press-we shouldn’t take lightly the idea that the freedom to say something is inextricably connected with the freedom to believe it.
US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Donald Trump on Sunday, saying the Republican frontrunner’s calls to ban Muslims from getting into america “endanger national safety”. Our country has a problem. “You don’t need to go back to the Hanukkah story to see the horrific results of religious persecution; religious stereotyping of this sort has been tried often, inevitably with disastrous results”. “They’re waiting for the next attack”, Trump said.
Trump also said he wants to discover why terrorists have “total hatred” for the U.S. Following the logic of Trump’s comments about the role of political correctness in the San Bernardino shooting, if we’re too afraid to speak the blunt truth when under siege because we don’t want to offend our enemies, what good is free expression? Why is it happening? It surely affects large groups of the people who work for them or who buy from them. It’s from a specific group of people. OK?
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“We have to know the answer, or we’re never going to have a safe country”, Trump added.
